Yes, I wanted to be a girl but .......

Let me start by making it quite clear I utterly reject current gender fluidity and all the other associated nonsense on the grounds that it is in the best Emperor’s New Clothes tradition just utter stupidity. Of course everyone who wants to be trendy will be standing up cheering for rights that don’t exist before joining the flat earth society.

Having got that off my chest I have absolutely no problem with those who have genuine gender dysphoria.

I am so glad when I was ten or eleven no one had waltzed into my class asking if I wanted to be a girl. If they had I would have raised my arm in an instant. What a disaster my life would have been.

I was clever, that made me stand out as a prime target for bullying. It carried on even to my first year at University. I was pushed out of primary school early graduated at 20 from University. No I didn’t fit in, I was different. I hated sport in particular football, again marked out as different and therefore a target. I knew nothing of the things boys talked about. I hated boys clothes, buttons, short trousers, shirts ties etc.

Girls had it easy, they had simpler clothes to pull on, didn’t like football, weren’t picked on if clever, not bullied for not having a team to support, weren’t expected to be great at sports, weren’t picked on for being small and bespectacled and it was ok to love poetry.

Hell yes my hand would have shot up.


I’m so glad I wasn’t asked, it was rough growing up but I survived. Bruised and a bit broken but I survived, married and am a Grandfather and very comfortable with who I am.

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